Yukon Ho!

June 2, 2006: To the island!

We got up at 7:30am so we could leave when Chris and Myle left for work.
Both of us woke up with massive headaches (even though we only had a few drinks the night beore) and starving stomachs so went to the first open breakfast place we could find, which ended up being White Spot. Breakfast was expensive and average-tasting but it was fast and there was a bizarre middle-aged trio of loud-mouths spewing ethnic stereotypes and getting pissed that the three slices of toast they’d ordered weren’t coming fast enough, so that was entertaining.
By then it was 9:30 and all the outdoor stores were about to open so we drove to West Broadway where they’re all rammed around MEC and got a few last-minute supplies. Unfortunately no one in the whole of bear-ridden BC seemed to carry food caches. Fortunately the guy at MEC checked the nation-wide in-store inventory and told us the Victoria location might have one. We called them up and they said they did so we made for the ferry terminal where we caught the 1pm boat over to the island.
The ride was ok -no whale sightings and the only coffee was Starbucks, but I did get to catch up on all the celebrity gossip I missed in the last week. Brit is sooooo going to boot K-Fed to the curb soon.
It took about an hour to get to MEC, where we bought the cache and browsed the store for some supersweet secret merchandise they may have been hiding on the west coast and not sending to the Toronto location but it was all pretty much the same stuff.
With the help of Boston we rocked out all the way to Tofino and cruised around looking for Pacific Sands Beach Resort where my family was supposed to have set up camp in some sweet-ass villas earlier in the day.
When we arrived at 9:30pm, they were well into the booze and the BBQ-ing and there was no way we were going to catch up (plus we were dead tired) so we went to sleep in the luxurious beds at Pacific Sands.

Amy